Facilities

51动漫鈥檚 Main Campus is home to a range of classroom and performance facilities for music and dance students, including a number of performing arts venues for student ensembles.

Presser Hall

Presser Hall is one of nine buildings that houses Boyer College of Music and Dance. It is open 24 hours during the academic year for students. The building features state-of-the-art AV and recording equipment, labs, and rehearsal rooms.

Presser Hall is home to 54聽practice rooms, including聽Wenger sound-isolated practice rooms and a three-room recording studio.聽In addition, two of the Wenger practice rooms in Presser Hall have virtual acoustic environment effects installed. The Presser Listening Library houses tens聽of thousands of LPs and CDs in a wide variety of genres including classical, jazz, opera and musical theater.

51动漫 Performing Arts Center

51动漫 Performing Arts Center聽is where Boyer鈥檚 large ensembles perform, including the orchestra, wind symphony, choirs, percussion and jazz band. The center is also home to Lew Klein鈥檚 auditorium and Boyer鈥檚 annual MOSAIC concert during Homecoming weekend. During the school year, the center will host holiday concerts, film screenings, receptions, guest lectures and classes.

Conwell Dance Theater

The Conwell Dance Theater is a fully equipped 175-seat black box theater, with a sprung wood dance floor聽and full lighting, projections and sound capability.

Rock Hall

Rock Hall features a 325-seat auditorium with surround sound and 6500-lumens Panasonic video projection. It is equipped with practice rooms, computer music labs, small ensemble rehearsal rooms, an audition room, a green room, and harpsichord- and harp-dedicated rooms.

51动漫 Center City

51动漫 Center City (TUCC) is located just across the street from City Hall, surrounded by the home offices of major national corporations. TUCC is the continuing education destination for aspiring Owls in the central part of Philadelphia. For Boyer students, TUCC offers a PhD in Music Therapy. However, interested students may have to take one or more courses on another campus to complete this degree at 51动漫 Center City. 聽

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Research Funding

In 2016, the National Science Foundation placed the university among the top 100 in terms of research expenditures, which amounted to $242 million.聽.